Paddy rice is irrigated by water diverted from rivers ... Indeed, as a matter of tradition, the Japanese government strictly prohibits the import of rice as long as local crops provide harvests ...

It is a double whammy for the JVP; both rice consumers and paddy farmers are demanding that their competing interests be addressed. Rice growers are threatening to march on Colombo and stage what they ...

At least a fifth of rice farms have reported a drop in quality ... Farming ministry data show that only around 15% of Japanese paddy fields have adopted heat resistance variants.

Butadon, which features sliced pork and onions, is a quick donburi (rice bowl) to make ... buy pre-sliced pork – the kind for Japanese barbecue, not the thinly sliced meat for shabu-shabu ...

The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that ... to focus on agricultural technology and issues that affect the Japanese countryside. One project that came up was rice field monitoring ...

Japan's rice wholesalers are taking drastic action in light of soaring prices. They are striking deals for this year's harvest, with farmers who are yet to even plant the seeds.

This is supported by the Japanese Science and Technology Agency ... who are characterizing microbial communities in rice paddy soils in the Niigata region using next-generation DNA sequencing ...

As a result, arsenic accumulates in the soil of paddy fields, and rice itself absorbs ... Would you like human sweat added to your Japanese rice snack? (video) The post Is your rice slowly ...